a feel good news bit from the mailbox this morning ...

A former government contractor in Virginia who famously gave the president's motorcade a one-finger salute won the race Tuesday for a seat on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. Juli Briskman ran as a Democrat and defeated the eight-year Republican incumbent, Suzanne Volpe. This will be Briskman's first time in elected office.

Briskman, 52, shot to fame in 2017 after a White House photographer captured her giving the finger to Mr. Trump's motorcade as she rode by on her bicycle in Northern Virginia. The photo went viral, and Briskman posted it on her Facebook and Twitter pages.

But it also cost Briskman her job as a marketing analyst for the federal contractor Akima LLC, which said she had violated the company's social media policy on obscenity. Briskman later sued her former employer and won severance pay..."

Courtesy CBS News